[1] At age 18, he enlisted for service in the Union Army in the fourth year of the American Civil War.
He was enrolled as a private in Company A of the 2nd Ohio Cavalry Regiment and went to the front in the eastern theater of the war.
With his regiment, he participated in the bloody battles of Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign, which culminated in the Siege of Petersburg in the Summer of 1864.
In June 1864, his regiment participated in the Wilson–Kautz Raid against Confederate railroad lines supplying Petersburg and Richmond.
In 1876, he returned to politics and was elected district attorney of Monroe County, serving a two-year term.
[1] He was active throughout his life with the Grand Army of the Republic veterans organization, and was commander of the Sparta, Wisconsin, post in 1883 and 1884.
[1] Adelbert Bleekman, Sr., died at his home in La Crosse on January 27, 1908, after six years of illness which had ended his legal career.